Hookers and Booze will never be the same ~!~

[haikuman]

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30 September 2011 Last updated at 00:52 GMT Share this pageEmailPrint

Beetle's beer bottle sex wins Ig Nobel Prize
By Jonathan Amos
Science correspondent, BBC News


I'm sorry, run that one past me again.

That's right, certain Australian beetles will try to copulate with discarded beer bottles, but they have to be of the right type - brown ones with bobbly bits on them.

This fascinating observation made almost 30 years ago has finally landed entomologists Darryl Gwynne and David Rentz with an Ig Nobel Prize.

The Igs are the "alternative" version to the rather more sober Nobel awards announced in Sweden next week.

Other recipients this year of the prizes run by the science humour magazine Annals of Improbable Research included the mayor of Vilnius in Lithuania, Arturas Zuokas.

[NewtonMP2100]

.....therein lies the HOOK....

[$tevie]

I like this one: Chemistry Prize: A team led from Shiga University, Japan, that determined the ideal density of airborne wasabi to awaken sleeping people in case of a fire or other emergency, and for applying this knowledge to invent the wasabi alarm. Patent pending.

[Trouble]

I'm sure the beetle is thinking "Big girls need love too"

[JPK]

This thread is useless without pictures!

JPK

[haikuman]

JPK wrote:
This thread is useless without pictures!

JPK

The stipples on the bottles may have been confused for markings on females' wing covers

Tainted luv ~!~

[OWC Jamie]

They must be horny little buggers.


( and related to french poodles )

[JPK]

Even in some of my greatest "drunks" I would never confuse a beer bottle and a female's wing covers. I will admit I may have chased an ugly female's wing covers, but I think we have all been THERE.

JPK